The Sanitas Group is one of the leading health insurance companies in Switzerland. Sanitas Krankenversicherung (foundation) was founded in 1958 with the aim of providing insurance for the economic consequences of illness, accident, maternity, disability and death.
Today, the Sanitas Group comprises Sanitas Krankenversicherung (foundation), Sanitas Beteiligungen AG (holding company) and three operational joint-stock companies. Of these three companies, one is responsible for mandatory basic health insurance business pursuant to KVG/HIA (Sanitas Grundversicherungen AG) and one for supplementary health insurance business pursuant to VVG/IPA (Sanitas Privatversicherungen AG). The third company, Sanitas Management AG, is the service provider of the Sanitas Group and it takes care of the cross-group services of the other companies.
Sanitas Krankenversicherung (foundation) holds the entire shares of Sanitas Beteiligungen AG (holding company), which in turn holds all the shares of the operational companies. Additionally, Sanitas Beteiligungen AG (holding company) has shares in other companies, including a 50% share in Sanacare AG which specialises in managed care models. None of the shares of the above companies are traded on the stock exchange. In its desire to act as a corporate role model, Sanitas has professionalised and strengthened the governance of the Sanitas Group in areas including transparency, independence and integrated risk management. It pays particular attention to personal independence. Accordingly, every member of the board of trustees and board of directors must issue a public declaration stating his or her independence of any other organisation or company.
